Visual Paradigm is a software tool designed for software development teams to model business information system and manage development processes. Visual Paradigm supports key industry modeling languages and standards such as Unified Modeling Language (UML), SoaML, BPMN, XMI, etc. It offers complete tool-set software companies need for requirements capturing, process analysis, system design, database design, and etc.

Visual Paradigm is headquartered in Hong Kong. We can be contacted in the following ways: Yes, you can evaluate Visual Paradigm for free for 30 days. You can download Visual Paradigm in its download page.

Visual Paradigm Community Edition is only available for non-commercial use. Diagrams and documents generated from the Community Edition will present a small Visual Paradigm logo at the bottom right corner of the images.

Yes, you can run Visual Paradigm on Linux, Mac OS X, Windows and Unix.

Watermark appears only in Community Edition or when running in evaluation mode.
When you run with perpetual license or subscription license, watermark will not appear in the exported images and documents anymore.

Yes, you can perform a silent installation on Visual Paradigm.

Please read our Know-how article to see how to install the software on Mac OS X Mountain Lion.

Visual Paradigm is committed to assist our users on any inquiry and problem about Visual Paradigm products. If you have inquiries about our products, please do not hesitate to contact our technical and sales team.

Our mission is to deliver a quality application to all of our users. Quality application includes stable and easy-to-use software plus a good technical support service. You can contact our support team no matter you have purchased the maintenance or not. We will try our best to answer your question and fix your problem.

We offer a highly flexible and affordable pricing structure. Please check the Visual Paradigm price list for details.

Software maintenance is the most economical way for you to keep your software up-to-date. Customers are entitled to get all version upgrades and priority support within their software maintenance period.

Floating license has to be imported into a floating license server, and then let Visual Paradigm connect to the server for acquiring license key. Besides, make sure the version of Visual Paradigm you run matches your license key file.

A discount of 30% is available when purchasing 5 or more copies of Visual Paradigm Enterprise license per order.
A discount of 5% is available when purchasing 5 - 9 copies of Visual Paradigm Modeler/Standard/Professional license per order, while a discount of 10% is available for purchasing 10 or more copies. Note that the discount is available on a per-product basis.

You may ask your teacher to join our Academic Partner Program. Academic partners are issued department-based license(s) for educational purposes.

Community Edition is only for "non-commercial use" only. For internal training purpose, please contact Visual Paradigm for more information.

You can install Visual Paradigm on not more than three machines, provided that you are the only user and at most one instance is started at the same time.

Yes, all paid licenses (including perpetual and subscription licenses of Modeler Edition or higher) allow for commercial use, meaning you can use Visual Paradigm in commercial projects and environments. However, the free Community Edition is strictly for non-commercial use only, and it cannot be used in any commercial project or environment.

The Community Edition is a free version of Visual Paradigm intended solely for personal and educational use, meaning it cannot be used in commercial projects or business environments. Paid licenses, starting from the Modeler Edition, provide commercial usage rights, allowing them to be used in any commercial or professional setting.

No, the Evaluation License is limited to testing and evaluation purposes only and cannot be used in any commercial project or environment. For commercial use, a paid license (Modeler Edition or above) must be purchased.

Yes, you can upgrade from the Community Edition to a paid license (Modeler Edition or above) at any time. Once upgraded, you’ll gain commercial usage rights to use Visual Paradigm in business or professional projects and environments.

The generated persistence layer is redistributable. You can freely distribute it to your clients.

Visual Paradigm supports wide range of databases - MySQL, MariaDB, MS SQL Server, Oracle, HSQL, Sybase, Postgre, Cloudscape/Derby, DB2, Ingres, OpenEdge, Informix, Firebird, FrontBase, Cache, SQLite, H2, Amazon Redshift

Visual Paradigm can run seamlessly within Eclipse/NetBeans/IntelliJ IDEA/Visual Studio. This allows you to perform software design and implementation within a unified environment - your favorite IDE.

For the moment we only support standard Eclipse. Visual Paradigm do not support integrating with other customized Eclipse environments.

I'm sorry that for the moment we do not support integrating Visual Paradigm with Eclipse on Mac. Please reference to the following article on how to perform code-model synchronization with standalone Visual Paradigm and Eclipse on Mac.
http://knowhow.visual-paradigm.com/technical-support/code-engineering-with-eclipse-on-mac-os-x

Please reference to the following article about how to run Visual Paradigm Integration with Eclipse 4.4 Luna.
http://knowhow.visual-paradigm.com/technical-support/vp_eclipse_lunar_integration/

Visual Paradigm supports code generation on .NET languages through Instant Generator. Besides, the integration with Microsoft Visual Studio provides code-model synchronization support.

Currently, Visual Paradigm supports generating source code only from class diagram and state machine diagram. We welcome any suggestion you may have in relation to code generation from any kind of diagram.

The generated persistence layer is redistributable. You can freely distribute it to your clients.

Visual Paradigm supports wide range of databases - MySQL, MariaDB, MS SQL Server, Oracle, HSQL, Sybase, Postgre, Cloudscape/Derby, DB2, Ingres, OpenEdge, Informix, Firebird, FrontBase, Cache, SQLite, H2, Amazon Redshift

Doc. Composer allows you to build a document with any project data and in any style you want. Visual Paradigm provides you with an easy-to-use template language to query project data and structure document content. HTML, PDF and Word document can be generated.